Low Birthrates Beckon New Debate: Whether to Encourage Having Children

Those who craft public policies in America are headed toward a new and uncomfortable debate: whether steadily declining birthrates mean the government should provide incentives specifically to encourage having more children.

There’s already a well-established and increasingly bipartisan impulse to create policies to make life easier for families once they have children. Child tax credits, government-funded preschool programs, removal of marriage penalties from the tax code—all are designed to make life easier for younger parents and their families.

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